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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






2. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






3. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






4. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






5. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






6. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






7. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






8. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






9. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






10. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






11. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






12. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






13. Significant point or event in the project






14. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






15. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






16. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






17. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






18. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






19. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






20. Budgeted cost of work performed






21. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






22. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






23. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






24. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






25. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






26. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






27. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






28. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






29. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






30. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






31. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






32. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






33. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






34. Processes that organize and manage the project team






35. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






36. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






37. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






38. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






39. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






40. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






41. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






42. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






43. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






44. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






45. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






46. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






47. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






48. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






49. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






50. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports